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Friday, May 18, 2007

The Quicking

I'm hunched over a small keyboard on a small chair in my small office. Being the only one in the office, projects completed and calls made, I exist only to man the phones for a brief amount of time while I await the return of my boss. In this lull, this eye of the storm if you will, I turn to a solace I have not turned to in a long time. Like a sorrowful, dejected lover returning home with flowers and profuse words of apology, so I return to helm this fully armed and operational battlestation.

Only a paragraph in and already a Star Wars reference. I still got it.

There is not much to elaborate on why this blog sat silent and motionless, hemorrhaging the few readers it had. I am sure by know this blog is wandering in the vast desert void of all life, a lonely desolate existence. We'll see what we can accomplish on that front. Current status? Summer is here and I believe that is all the status needed. Wonderful, blissful summer. Full-time employment followed summer, so now I work for the University of Alaska Anchorage in the office of New Student Orientation. It's a combination of freshman babysitter, secretary and cinematographer. Yes, once again I managed to find work that included in some function my favorite activity. Chalk it up to luck or fate or just plain awesomeness.

"Cinematographer" essentially means figure out how to make a professional grade video for incoming freshmen to view on a minuscule budget, working with a huge university system that appears to never have heard about the concept of moving pictures. The only department that has reasonable aptitude in this category is Athletics. Not even the men who get paid to deal with technology can help me create a work of art and so we turn to the sports jocks to assist. Incredible, isn't it? No, not really. It's actually boring so let us turn to other matters.

College Republicans has taken flight in a manner that my wildest dreams would have never dreamed. I am now the Vice-Chair of the Alaska Federation of College Republicans. Not bad for wanting to start a small club of conservative students some three months ago. Now we have plans, members, funding, fancy spreadsheets and lots and lots of phone calls. The Young Republicans are even throwing us a party at a nice, upscale club called Platinum Jaxx. Many politicians and party officials will be there and the party's official reason for existence is to introduce the UAA College Republicans. I'm incredibly excited for the UAA Chapter. We are going to be a very active club, a big presence on campus. We have a large-scale recruitment drive in the works for the Fall semester, including barbecue socials, tables, speakers, Seawolf game appearances and more. This next semester will be a veritable cornucopia of busy and awesome wedged together.

One reason for this plethora of fun is that I'm moving, again. Sometime in July (I hope), several friends and I are going to be moving into a large house for rent near the campus. It's going to kick some serious ass. I have already deemed the residence the Mansion of Awesome. Nearby neighbors will see nothing but an emitting glow of cool from the plot of land. It's a big wooded plot and pets are allowed, meaning I can finally have a dog. I am trying to obtain an old barbecue, because what is a party house without some BBQ in the backyard during the game? It is a house of lies, is what.

Been following the Republican candidate debates? I worry greatly about our chances at the big house, it seems that even if we put a favorable candidate in, we still gain a fairly liberal president. McCain and Guiliani do not have strong stances on critical conservative issues and Romney simply swapped on a lot of important issues as soon as he announced his run. Who is our next Reagan? Tancredo? Brownback? There are rumors of a purported champion by the name of Fred Thompson but can he really win the candidacy? We shall see...

I suppose I should put together a resemble semblance of a project together this morning so time to get going. If you are reading this entry on my Facebook, be sure to actually come visit the blog. It's been redesigned to look much better, thank God.

Comments

As it happens I have been following the republican debates, and of course the only one I can stand listening to is Ron Paul. Guiliani is an idiot and a hypocrite, McCain is a hypocrite 10x so, and I'm glad that I'm living in Boston now so that I can have an understanding of just how horrible a choice Romney would be.

Still, unless Ron Paul's movement to bring actual Republican ideals back to the Republican party bears fruit, I think Romney is the one most likely to end up with the nomination. Or, I've heard rumors that current NYC mayor Bloomberg might enter the race. But I think as an Independent rather than a Republican.